Mike Ting

Overnight Sublime 2006 (2006)

33 min 19 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

"I camped overnight in a windowless institutional space surrounded by movies that invoked the sublime such as Moby Dick, Fitzcaraldo, and Lawrence of Arabia hoping that sleep deprivation and deep immersion in the subject would induce hallucinations that would help make art about the sublime." - MT

    Other works by Mike Ting

    A busy car garage with scrap metal lying on all surfaces.
    Mike Ting

    CUTTER (2008)

    In an industrial workshop the camera eye is deliberately scored and marked.

    CUTTER
    A person walks back and forth drawing thin blue lines on a white wall.
    Mike Ting

    KIND OF BLUE (2016)

    An exercise in collaborative formal abstraction, mark and sound making.

    KIND OF BLUE
    A topless person opens a can of expanding foam.
    Mike Ting

    PERSONAL GROWTH (2017)

    An essay on the anxieties of New Zealand masculinity.

    PERSONAL GROWTH
    An empty restaurant in Taipei, there are chopsticks and condiments on each table. A glossy black car drives past.
    Mike Ting

    Strange Intimate (Faith) (2017)

    The artist meets fifteen people with the same name as themself.

    Strange Intimate (Faith)
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